Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Our Fight Against Tyranny

When the true Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil sprouts from the mush of my brain,
who will replace my heart with clock of wood
so my eyes are stained blue by winter rain
in our noble fight against tyranny?

I leap through woods when the clown with one eye
chases me with an axe and howls my name
because I cannot fly into the sky,
but defeat the tyrant to gain world fame
in our noble fight against tyranny.

Why am I me, conscious of my own soul,
and no other person who ever lived
in all the teeming history of the world,
the only soul that God never deceived
in our noble fight against tyranny?

I duck and dodge the swinging of the stick
when gang of thieves attacks me on the road,
then slip away with eye-deceiving trick
to hide in the pond like the dreamless toad
in our noble fight against tyranny.

How fast is our planet spinning through space,
spiraling around the sun in vast void,
lost forever in this meaningless race
against death when I become an android
in our noble fight against tyranny?

I stand before the cheering crowd at dawn
and twang soul-enchanting string of guitar
of Phoebus who appears on the spotted fawn
then takes me to Heaven past the last star
in our noble fight against tyranny.

Though I was born from the heart of the queen
chanting hymns on the One Eye Pyramid,
who springs to life from our immortal gene
to weave our universe on flashing grid
in our noble fight against tyranny?

I sing hymn of Apollo in grand hall
but stare surprised to see that every face
is no one, but bright mirrors on the wall
invented by my secret memory trace
in our noble fight against tyranny.

Where can I run through labyrinth of doors
to free from chains our Queen of Liberty
when the Angel of Death on misty moors
asks me to help her solve this mystery
in our noble fight against tyranny?

She grips my hand and requests that I join
her holistic detective agency
to discover secret of the Owl Coin,
and who now rules the global regency
in our noble fight against tyranny.

What is the meaning of this hungry life
when we must fight against the angst of death
and hide to avoid political strife
by floating under trees with a deep breath
in our noble fight against tyranny?

I grasp the stick and stone in both my hands
and design good reason to hunt and plant,
then build stone towers in a thousand lands
till I can meditate in Hell and chant
in our noble fight against tyranny.

How do the people across the land feel
now that they realize the clown in a suit
conned them with the trick of a phony deal,
laughing as he hauls in their pilfered loot
in our noble fight against tyranny?

I tend my garden on the river shore,
humming hymns to Venus in glowing sun,
and wait for explosion of the world war
that will be chronicled by those who won
in our noble fight against tyranny.

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About Me

I am a cartographer, geospatial analyst, and terrain developer by day, and epic poet by night.

I am writing an epic poem in blank verse titled Hermead about scientists and inventors of civilization. This bible for atheists and scientists is now 120,000 lines of blank verse covering the lives of 25 Greek philosophers.

I posted about 200 songs I wrote and composed at http://youtube.com/surazeus but do not expect anything more than amateur fun folk singing.

I was born in Oregon in the Year of the Beatles, grew up in Texas in the 1970s, went to high school and college in Takoma (Washington state) in the 1980s. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts in 1988 at Washington State University. After living in Seattle for a few years, I hitchhiked around the country playing grunge folk in the 1990s.

I got a job as web designer at State of Michigan 1999-2004, then earned a Master of Science in Geographic Information Science 2005-8 at Michigan State University.

I have since lived in North Carolina and now in Georgia working as a cartographer. Where will I go next on the journey of life? My goal is to become a Professor of Literature at Harvard, which was founded by my ancestor, Thomas Dudley.

I married an Indonesian Muslim woman from Java Island and we have two cute daughters I named for goddesses of wisdom -- Saraswati and Athena.

I am generally a Gnostic Humanist. I do not know if there is a God or not, but the gods of history were humans who had a large influence on their times. What is most important is that I know myself and understand my perceptions, and recreate them in verse.

I am descended 13 generations from the Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet. Her father, Thomas Dudley, signed the charter to found Harvard, and was descended from the Sutton-Dudley clan of Elizabethan England, who were descended from Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.

My religion is Astarism.

Astarism honors First Mother Astara Ishtar Athena.

Ishtar sent Abraham and Sarah west and they founded Assurism, Olympism, Apollonism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sufism, and all their branches and offshoots.

Ishtar sent Brahma and Saraswati east and they founded Hinduism, Vaishnism, Shaivism, Buddhism, Krishnaism, Sikhism, and all their branches and offshoots.